Rational Psychopharmacology: A Book of Clinical Skills

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"Most books about psychopharmacology focus heavily on the basic science involved and describe the currently available medications, including brief rationales for their use as well as their dosages and their side effects. Others are more for the general public, intended to help them understand how psychopharmacology might be helpful. This book is different. The goal is to teach the reader what medicines are available and what their characteristics are as well as teach very valuable skills: how to think thoroughly and methodically when assessing a patient, when reviewing research data (both basic and clinical), and when thinking through, developing, and monitoring the most effective clinical recommendations for patients. Rather than a lesson in elementary patient assessment, this book is an attempt to help readers identify weaknesses in their practice style and improve them where psychopharmacology is involved"-- Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction Acknowledgments 1 Thinking Thoroughly and Methodically 2 Evidence-Based Medicine in an Era of Sparse Evidence: Assessment of Data 3 Thorough Assessment Techniques 4 Rational and Methodical Treatment Planning 5 Risks of Jumping From Molecule to Mind or Symptom 6 Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Pharmacogenomics 7 Categories of Medication Used in Clinical Psychopharmacology 8 Supplements: Their Role in Helping and Not Helping 9 Critical Lifestyle Supports to Successful Clinical Psychopharmacology 10 Nonpharmacological Somatic Treatments in Current Use 11 Adverse Events 12 Rational and Methodical Treatment Monitoring Answer Key Index Back Cover